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Voicing a populist, frequently socialist rhetoric,1 at independence nationalist political leaders assumed state power in new nations still defined by colonial capitalist laws and institutions. A fatal race ensued: would the leaders transform the institutions to favor the poor and disinherited? Or would the institutions transform the leadership (cf. Nzongola-Ntalaja, 1987)?
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Seidman, A., Seidman, R.B. (1994). The Fatal Race: The Rise of the Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie. In: State and Law in the Development Process. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23615-2_9
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